Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

kanto girl

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.61 in modern English

Syllables: kan-to -girl
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An office girl.

Slang

Etymology

From kanto boy, but the latter term was replaced with girl as a female equivalent, whereas the former term was originally from Japanese 官庁(かんちょう) (kanchō, “government office”), borrowed in the Philippines during WW2 according to Potet (2016), but it was eventually replaced with Tagalog kanto (“corner, especially of two streets”), which was reinterpreted to refer to an "office corner".

Origin

Source language: Japanese

Word Breakdown

Root: -, kanto

Usage

Slang

Inflected Forms

kanto girls (plural)

Phrases

kanto boy kanto lingo yosi boy takatak boy rugby boy call boy call girl

Frequently Paired Words

kanto boy kanto lingo yosi boy takatak boy rugby boy call boy call girl

Questions

What does kanto girl mean?: An office girl.
Where does kanto girl come from?: It is traced to Japanese.

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